NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

593 points

82% significantly better overall score

325 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

13 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

9 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1232 points

143% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

506 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.59 points

188% significantly higher Blender score

48.42 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

11818 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

5882 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

12257 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

6193 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10582 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5469 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

11578 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6264 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9535 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5609 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1097 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

1020 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1176 MHz

7% slightly higher boost clock speed

1098 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

80.19 GB/s

456% significantly higher memory bandwidth

14.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

65 W

15% slightly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.82 Gigapixels/s

7% slightly higher pixel rate

17.57 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

47.04 Gigatexels/s

33% slightly higher texture rate

35.14 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

25% slightly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

25% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

310th of 586

366th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 960M vs GeForce 940M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 960M GPU is faster than the GeForce 940M in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 960M has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 960M also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 960M has a slightly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce 940M at 75 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 960M is faster than the GeForce 940M.